The Black Plague
The book I chose to read was titled The Medieval Plague: The Black Death of the Middle Ages. The author of the book is Geoffrey Marks. Doubleday & company, inc. in 1971, published The Medieval Plague: The Black Death of the Middle Ages in Garden City, New York. The book was a great source of information. It gave vast descriptions of many aspects of the plague. Some of the topics it covered were as follows: what was the plague, the rising of the plague, the Black Death coming to Europe and how it spread, and life during the plague. I will now explain what I have read about these topics.There were many devastating diseases throughout history but none so devastating as the Black Death. Nothing compares to the reflective imprint it left on history. When this disease was present it killed all in its way. Before the plague hit Europe the population was estimated at 100,000,000:after the plague only 75,000,000 people were living. This means that 25,000,000 helpless people died during a four-year period, the plague years, 1347-1351. The plague came out of nowhere: it wasn't there one day and there it was the next. The people were helpless when it reached them. The doctors had no way to
They began to die promptly and unpleasantly. Immediately people's condition began to worsen and most eventually died. The plague spread fast because the street rats quickly became infected in large numbers. They were ships from Genoa that were returning from the near east. When the ships left port two of them sailed to French ports. Life during the plague: As Agnolo di Tura predicted those of us living now, long after the Black Death, cannot truly imagine what things were like then. Much of the world was reshaped as a result of its four-year reign. The city had to put everything to a halt. Many people died from the plague but those who it hadn't hit yet died of other things. They would pray to try to protect them from disease and hardship. It changed the make up of whole towns and communities that it hit. Many had to watch friends and neighbors die in front of them.
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